Squal aristro by user9365667

Format: Commander

Commander: Squall, SeeD Mercenary

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 44

Deck overview

This deck is a focused combat-aristocrats strategy built around Squall, SeeD Mercenary. Squall grants himself double strike when attacking alone and reanimates a permanent card with mana value 3 or less whenever he deals combat damage to a player. Because double strike creates two separate combat damage steps, a single unblocked attack returns up to two permanents from your graveyard directly to the battlefield each turn. The 99 is tailored to maximize this trigger, loaded with low-cost self-sacrificing edicts, discard creatures, aristocrat drainers, and protective bodies. Squall repeatedly loops sacrificial fodder like Plaguecrafter and Selfless Savior, stripping opponents of creatures and cards while establishing an unyielding defense. The deck closes games through lethal double-strike commander damage enhanced by All That Glitters or Sadistic Glee, alongside consistent table-wide life drain from Blood Artist, Cruel Celebrant, and Bastion of Remembrance.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 All That Glitters
  • 1 Anafenza, Unyielding Lineage
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Assault Intercessor
  • 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
  • 1 Bartolomé del Presidio
  • 1 Bastion Protector
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Benevolent Bodyguard
  • 1 Blitzball
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bounty Agent
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Brave the Sands
  • 1 Buried Ruin
  • 1 Cathar Commando
  • 1 Cave of Temptation
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Circuit Mender
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cruel Celebrant
  • 1 Crystal Vein
  • 1 Dark Prophecy
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Demolition Field
  • 1 Desecrated Tomb
  • 1 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
  • 1 Elderfang Disciple
  • 1 Elite Interceptor // Rejoinder
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Fleshbag Marauder
  • 1 Fracture
  • 1 Fungal Fortitude
  • 1 Genji Glove
  • 1 Ghost Quarter
  • 1 Hecteyes
  • 1 Helpful Hunter
  • 1 Ichor Wellspring
  • 1 Infestation Sage
  • 1 Jirina, Dauntless General
  • 1 Key to the City
  • 1 Lash of the Balrog
  • 1 Lurrus of the Dream-Den
  • 1 Marauding Blight-Priest
  • 1 Mask of Memory
  • 1 Miasmic Mummy
  • 1 Midnight Reaper
  • 1 My Precious // Allure of Power
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Nasty End
  • 1 Nezumi Informant
  • 1 Obscura Storefront
  • 1 Orzhov Basilica
  • 1 Papalymo Totolymo
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Plaguecrafter
  • 7 Plains
  • 1 Priest of Ancient Lore
  • 1 Priest of Forgotten Gods
  • 1 Requisition Raid
  • 1 Restoration Magic
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sadistic Glee
  • 1 Seal of Cleansing
  • 1 Seal of Doom
  • 1 Selfless Savior
  • 1 Selfless Spirit
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Social Snub
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soldevi Adnate
  • 1 Squall, SeeD Mercenary
  • 1 Stony-Voiced Goblins
  • 10 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Teval's Judgment
  • 1 Trapped in the Screen
  • 1 Vengeful Bloodwitch
  • 1 Vibrant Cityscape
  • 1 Wishclaw Talisman
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat